kabacoff@novavax.UUCP (Robert I. Kabacoff Ph.D.) (11/02/90)
I need an alternate key sequence for control-S and control-Q.
Reason: I am working in an ethernet environment with terminal
servers that depend on XON/XOFF flow control to be enabled
(this is a must for other reasons). As things stand now
when I use the CONTROL-S to save a file, the terminal
locks up.
Any help would be appreciated.
-Rob Kabacoff
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=============================================================================Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (11/02/90)
>>>>> On 1 Nov 90 19:36:20 GMT, kabacoff@novavax.UUCP (Robert I. Kabacoff Ph.D.) said:
Robert> I need an alternate key sequence for control-S and control-Q.
Well, here... and also see the file lisp/term/bobcat.el ...
From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM
Subject: Control-S Control-Q (X-on/X-off flow control protocol) problems
Date: 10/1990
On many system/network/terminal combinations there is difficulty
passing the characters Control-S and Control-Q, as they are used by
the computer/terminal to tell one side to start/stop sending
characters to prevent buffer overflow.
Early on I decided to always use Control-] for Control-S, and
Control-\ for Control-Q (set in my ".emacs" file), (i.e. I hit a
Control-] and GNU Emacs interprets it at a low level internally as a
Control-S, I don't hit Control-S on my keyboard anymore... same with
the Control-\ Control-Q pair) here's how:
(setq term-setup-hook
(function (lambda ()
;always use C-] for C-s, and C-\ for C-q for uniformity, even though
;some terminals and baud rates do not have a "flow control" problem
(set-input-mode nil t)
(let ((the-table (make-string 128 0)) (i 0))
(while (< i 128)
(aset the-table i i)
(setq i (1+ i)))
(aset the-table ?\C-\\ ?\C-q)
(aset the-table ?\C-\] ?\C-s)
(setq keyboard-translate-table the-table))
(message "Using C-] for C-s, and C-\\ for C-q")
)))
Though I liked control-] as a remap choice because it is usually in
the same spot on most keyboards, I am having second thoughts, as it is
often the "telnet" program's default enter-command-mode character
(telnet is one remote login method). And as of this writing, telnet
doesn't read a ".telnetrc" file to allow changes at start-up time...
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